Mosinee aims to develop charter school

Program intended to help struggling high school students

3:04 AM,
Dec. 6, 2012

Associate Principal Dennis Kaczor, middle, has conversation with student Austin McCarthy on Wednesday afternoon about developing a charter school in Mosinee High School. On Kaczor's right is student Logan Block.

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Administrators in the Mosinee School District are beginning to develop a charter school that would serve struggling high-schoolers with a project-based curriculum.

The idea comes from Dennis Kaczor, the associate principal of Mosinee High School, who envisions the new school serving a segment of students who have long-term difficulties in the traditional school system but who don't have severe enough needs to receive the individual help of special education programs.

Right now, students who fail or are close to failing classes receive extra help during an enrichment period, either ...